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Hahahahaha. SMC, Act 24. SMC, Act 25:

Most of this is second hand information, but yes, I've read that Minako's continously more and more goofball personality in the first anime was based on her in Codename: Sailor V. Sailor Moon manga Minako was the experienced leader type with a hotheaded streak who could be pretty pigheaded at times (in a side story she apparently goes and ruins a school festival Rei was helping out with, this might have parallels with the SuperS episode where she tries to ruin Makoto's attempts to flirt with an elementary school principal). Codename Sailor V was originally a one-shot manga. Successful enough to cause Toei to want to make an anime adaptation that lead to Sailor Moon and the situation that Naoko Takeuchi apparently started doing new Sailor V and Sailor Moon manga releases each month. The utter mess that the storytelling in the Black Moon arc is seems to be sufficient evidence that she indeed bit off more than she could chew, or was talked into it, because the other thing that I read is that she originally thought Sailor Moon would be a one arc manga. I suppose that she took the contract for more Sailor V and then gave in when Toei wanted more Sailor Moon. This then lead to the filler arc of R, to give her a two or three months headstart. From what I have read, however, Codename: Sailor V was more lighthearted than Sailor Moon, up until Codename: Sailor V had to prepare the story for Sailor Moon as a sequel, from where it then took a dip into being a little more grimdark. I can't corroborate that, yet, but it seems more and more likely that reading Sailor V seems to be a better use of my time than reading Sailor Moon. And I can honstly say that I do not understand how there can be manga fanboys that hate both the original anime and Sailor Moon Crystal. I'm not sure how anyone can be a manga fanboy. Or fangirl, when everything about the adaptation is simply superior, but de gustibus non est disputandum, right?

I think that's also in the manga, I don't entirely know 100%.

SMC Act 23, liberal edits incoming probably:

Mimetto-kun causes what's probably the best joke in the entire run of the show, so regardless of what else you might think of her, I love her for that alone. SMC vs. Star Wars discussion:

I don't know, Riker was also the focus character of the best clip show ever. Have you forgotten Shades of Gray?

SMC, Act 22:

SMC, Act 21.

Japanese with German subtitles. I just watch SMC dubbed, because why bother, at least that way I don't need to stare at the screen all the time to catch the dialogue.

SMC, Act 20: Oh, also two more episodes of Steven Universe.

E. L. James comes up in her video Dear Stephenie Meyer video, because Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fanfiction - much like Anna Todd's "After" series was One Direction fanfiction before it became a similar smash hit for no reason. I think After is even worse to be honest. It is aptly named however. After is the German word for anus, and that's where that book series came from. And yes, that's the last of what you will hear from me about that, unless asked. Sorry. I mean, at least in this thread. Ah, the left and their massive meme fraud. I love how almost every seiyū in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure practises Shatnerian overacting regardless of what's happening on the screen. It had a rough start, but it's beginning to grow on me.

JoJo's dialogue sure is something else at times. I'm not yelling because I want to! Everyone should hate this drivel. But... but making connections that others can't see is the one thing I'm good at. Doesn't that meme go more like "Sir, this is an Arby's"? Not that I really know either. But rest easy that it was not me who made the connection. I just shone a light on it, right? *runs off crying*

I have no idea. Crystal was supposed to release for Sailor Moon's 20th anniversary, but got deleayed to 2014. In other words, I think the actual reason it was made was to rake some sweet Yen in, but I can see Naoko Takeuchi being all over a way to bring her original vision to the screen. She wasn't too shy to very vocally disagree with some of the original anime's choices.

Before that he couldn't do anything at all in Sailor Moon Crystal. Hey guys, be sure to read the edit in this one.

SMC, Act 18: Final meaningful name entry of the Inner Senshi: Aino Minako. So seeing how Mercury was Water Star, Mars was Fire Star and Jupiter was Wood Star befor romanization, what would you think Minako's name means when Venus was called Gold Star? If you thought Love's beautiful small child (well small/little child of love), then you'd be right. That's because she got her name in Sailor V before this entire planet based Sailor Moon character outline became a thing.

There's a great joke in SuperS: So yeah, that theory has some merit. YouTube just recommended me this: Well. She can't sing and there's no accounting for taste (the artwork does leave a lot to be desired and the music is just plain annoying in my opinion) but I still laughed.

Oh, yes, right. Forgot again. Kino Makoto: Well Kino means Wood's in this context (Jupiter being Wood Star in Japanese, do you see a trend yet?). What Makoto was supposed to mean exactly is a bit problematic because unlike the other girls her name is only ever written in hiragana - without a kanji to differentiate and no context to glean meaning from, the closest one would probably be sincerity or faithfulness. For those that don't know (which I'm guesing is potentially IC here in this thread) Hiragana is one of the three Japanese letter/writing systems where every character represents a syllable (sort of, it's not really a syllable in our sense, but as far as approximations go that's okay enough). It's entirely possible to write only in Hiragana, like Usagi does just to show you that she's not the brightest of students. Normal Japanese writing has Kanji for nouns and verbs, with Hiragana for conjugations and particles. So with Hiragana only able to provide how you pronounce a word, not what meaning it should have in the case of homophones we can't exactly know. Unless Naoko Takeuchi noted it somewhere. *shrug*

Sailor Moon Crystal, Act 17:

More little spoilers:

I should have known that the joke was too good to be in SuperS, damn.

I do have a tendency to overanalyse things, but here we go. Warning, major overanalysis for a three minute scene incoming... So, how surprising is it really that the story parts are the weakest of the show? Geez.